Krombie is hands down, one of the best storytellers I’ve ever met. I went on the extended version of her Death in New York: Extended tour.
Krombie’s tour is meticulously organized, with information presented in an enticing and logical way for patrons to easily absorb. Whether you have minimal knowledge of the subject matter (me) of have read her book, you will enjoy the experience.
A few highlights include:
- visiting the “gentleman’s cemetery”
- standing on a site of 120,000 corpses
- the unique anecdote that pertains to the Lincolns and the Booths
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Death in New York: Extended Private Tour
Discover more than four centuries of life and death in New York City with this special, extended Death in New York tour (based on the book Death in New York). After visiting the stops on the shorter, regular Death in New York tour—Battery Park, the Financial District, Tribeca, the Civic Center, and Chinatown—the extended tour continues to NoLita, the Lower East Side, NoHo, and Greenwich Village.
Main Features
Find out about New York City’s indigenous burial sites, riots, epidemics, and death-related legislation
Peer at the islands of New York Harbor, forgotten burial grounds, a funeral industry street, and the Manhattan jails of past and present
Visit a Catholic fortress, a walked-all-over bishop, the "resting place of gentlemen,” and a witness to a “miracle”
Learn about the city’s bodysnatchers and the ongoing challenges of where to put the dead
Discover the phases of capital punishment and the commercialization of the funeral industry
Meeting point: Outside the doors of Manhattan's Whitehall Ferry Terminal (for the Staten Island ferry) at 4 Whitehall Street, New York, NY 10004 (under the word “STATEN” in the “STATEN ISLAND FERRY” SIGN above the entrance.)
Ticket price: $300 for up to 8 people
Tour length: 4.5 hours (with a break)
Distance covered: 3.5 miles
Meeting point: Manhattan's Whitehall Ferry Terminal (for the Staten Island ferry)